HOBOKEN — When two men argue over a parking spot on “Seinfeld,” hilarity ensues. When it happens in Hoboken, things get real.
Police last week arrested a 31-year-old Jersey City man and charged him with simple assault after they say he tussled with a limousine driver over a parking spot on Washington Street.
The victim told police that he was double parked on Washington Street near 12th Street at about 11 a.m. Wednesday when Keith Torres pulled out of a nearby spot, according to a police report.
The limo driver parked in the now empty space and soon Torres returned, demanding the spot back, the report says.
According to the report, Torres became violent when the victim refused to leave the space, slamming the man’s car door on his leg three or four times and then punching him in the chest before leaving and entering a nearby deli.
The victim went with police to confront Torres, who said he had vacated the spot because he was blocking someone else from leaving and that he intended to take it back right away, the report says. \

Torres told police he was a victim, too, because the limousine driver hit him when he opened his car door to talk to Torres, the report says.